The Moviegoer
of Walker Percy
Description
The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback. The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 242 pages
- Publisher Vintage Books USA
- Publication Date April 14th 1998
- First Publication 10/28/61
- Language English
- ISBN 9780375701962
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['New Orleans, Louisiana (United States)', 'Louisiana (United States)']
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